For those veteran linux people, what was it like back in 90s? I did see and hear of Unix systems being available for use but I did not see much apart from old versions of Debian in use.

Were they prominent in education like universities? Was it mainly a hobbyist thing at the time compared to the business needs of 98, 95 and classic mac?

I ask this because I found out that some PC games I owned were apparently also on Linux even in CD format from a firm named Loki.

  • @MonkderDritte@feddit.de
    3•14 days ago

    In addition, everyone had a hardon for " compiling from source is better"

    I mean, optimization had more of an impact on the weak CPU’s back then, no?

    • Blaster MEnglish
      4•14 days ago

      That only matters if there’s anything to optimize by source compilation. If the program doesn’t have optimization features in the source, it’s wated time and energy.